Bibliography 2: #BIB29949

Key	BIB29949
Reference type	Book
Title	Born to Rule : Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Author	Gelardi, Julia P.
Year	2005
Date	2005
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Place published	New York
Issue	10.
ISBN	0312324235
Abstract	"Queen Marie of Romania remained an Anglican, though she had been confirmed in the German Protestant Church. But as the daughter of a Russian Orthodox mother, wife of a Roman Catholic, mother of children and queen of subjects belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church, it was not surprising that Marie was drawn to other teachings in her quest to reach a deeper relationship with God. She discovered some of her answers in the Bahá'í religion, which she encountered in 1926 in the midst of Prince Carol's scandals .Marie found one of its central tenets particularly appealing: surrounded by a diversity in faith among family members, she valued the emphasis on religious unity. Marie admitted that 'I really pray better at home with my Baha'u'llah books and teaching which have brought me such a message lately, the message in fact that I have always been waiting for - it has become a joy and comfort to me'.* She tried to explain the religion's attraction for her and where she stood in the spectrum of faiths: 'this dissatisfaction with every religious form made of me a great appreciator of the Bahá'í teachings, so that I have even been called a Bahá'í! But I am nothing except myself, though officially I am Anglican, but call myself a Protestant. When asked what sort of Protestant, I throw out my hands and smile a smile that might mean anything.'"
Notes	LC Control Number: 2004057021 Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-440) and index Bahá'í Faith: pp. 363-364.
Language	English
Keywords	QUEENS; EUROPE; MARIE OF ROMANIA
Number of pages	xxi, 457, [16] of plates
Edition	1st ed.

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